Travel

Sydney, October 2 (Reuters) - Australia will within weeks allow residents of New Zealand to enter the country without having to quarantine, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said on Friday, as Canberra seeks to revive its ailing economy as COVID-19 cases begin to slow. Australia in March closed its borders to all non-citizens and permanent residents to slow the spread...

September 30 (Simple Flying) - Sri Lanka will be getting a new airline as of February 2021. The new startup, Spark Air, first plans to launch with cargo operations before expanding to carry passengers from the South Asian nation. These activities will be carried out with two dry-leased Airbus A330s. According to Sri Lankan media outlet DailyFT, Spark Air’s Uditha...

Kandy, September 29 (newsin.asia) - The Radh, is an architectural masterpiece built in tribute to the glories of the ancient Kandyan kingdom. Choose from thirty rooms with eight categories out of which four are spacious suites personifying lush comfort, bursting with rich earthy tones and exquisitely detailed amenities. This luxury boutique hotel is located a few meters away from the...

Kathmandu, September 27 (AFP) - The 'Tourism Revival' campaign has been officially launched to accelerate the country's coronavirus-hit tourism industry. Amid a function held in Kathmandu on Saturday, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Yogesh Bhattarai launched the campaign along with the 'visit the country' campaign. Earlier, Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) had formed a task force under the public...

The airline industry has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Hardly a surprise, countries across the globe instituted nationwide lockdowns earlier this year and effectively brought air travel to a near standstill. Even now that things are slowly but surely opening back up, air travel isn’t exactly a top priority for many people these days. In light of...

Zurich/Milan, September 23 (Reuters) - European airlines are pinning hopes on pre-flight COVID-19 tests that deliver results as fast as pregnancy tests to help restore passengers’ confidence in taking to the skies in confined spaces with shared air. Germany’s Lufthansa, at the mercy of government bailouts for survival, is in talks with Swiss drugmaker Roche over deploying so-called antigen tests,...

September 22 (Independent) - A baby has been given free flights for life after her mother gave birth while still airborne. EgyptAir flight MS777 from Cairo to London had to do an emergency landing when Yemeni passenger Hiyam Nasr Naji Daaban realised she was going into labour. The pilot diverted the service to Munich, Germany, in hopes that Daaban could...

Paris, September 22 (Reuters) - Airbus has unveiled three visual concepts for “zero emission” airplanes to be powered by hydrogen. It is the planemaker’s latest effort to draw public attention to its “zero-emission” ambitions as European governments push for cleaner technology in their post-COVID recovery plans. Airbus has set itself a deadline of 2035 to put a carbon-free commercial aircraft...

New Delhi, September 21 (AFP) - The Taj Mahal reopens to visitors on Monday in a symbolic business-as-usual gesture, even as India looks set to overtake the US as the global leader in coronavirus infections. India, home to 1.3 billion people and some of the world's most crowded cities, has recorded more than 5.4 million Covid cases. Around 100,000 new...

Dhaka, September 12 (The New Nation) - Rickshaws are one of the most common, convenient and popular means of transport for the residents of Dhaka city since long. That is why Dhaka is called the city of rickshaws. According to many private surveys, there are over 600,000 rickshaws including battery-run rickshaws running on city roads. Besides, Dhaka was in the...